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Locomotive to aeromotive : Octave Chanute and the transportation revolution / Simine Short ; foreword by Tom D. Crouch.

Title: Locomotive to aeromotive : Octave Chanute and the transportation revolution / Simine Short ; foreword by Tom D. Crouch.
Author: Short, Simine, 1944-
Publication: Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield : University of Illinois Press, ©2011.

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xviii, 341 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

French-born and self-trained civil engineer Octave Chanute designed America's two largest stockyards, created innovative and influential structures such as the Kansas City Bridge over the previously 'unbridgeable' Missouri River, and was a passionate aviation pioneer whose collaborative approach to aeronautical engineering problems encouraged other experimenters, including the Wright brothers.

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Project Muse UPCC books

Alternative Title

Octave Chanute and the transportation revolution

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Genre/Form

collective biographies.
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Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

The formative years -- The university of experience -- Opening the west -- At the top -- Self realization -- A new industry -- From the locomotive to the aeromotive -- Encouraging progress in flying machines.

ISBN

9780252036316
025203631X
9780252093326 (epub) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2010051966
40019628625

OCLC

697974190

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Harvard Library